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Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by IgorPartola »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

I am totally in the same boat but also I do suspect it is a minority. It’s the same way that some people really want open source bootloaders, but 99.99% of people do not care at all. Maybe AI assistants in random places just aren’t that compatible with people on HN but are possibly useful for a lot of people not on HN?

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by teeray »

ryandrake wrote: post #160
xivzgrev wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There will be a crash as with any hype cycle But this is normal. A new thing is discovered, the market runs lots of tests to discover where it works / doesn’t, there’s a crash, valid use cases are found / scaled and the market matures. Y’all surely lived thru the mobile app hype cycle, where every startup was “uber for x”. The amount of money being spent today pales in comparison to the long term money on even one us…

It's a weird cycle though where the order of everything is messed up. The normal tech innovation model is: 1. User problem identified, 2. Technology advancement achieved, 3. Application built to solve problem With AI, it's turned into: 1. Technology advancement achieved, 2. Applications haphazardly being built to do anything with Technology, 3. Frantic search for users who might want to use applications. I don't know…

> With AI, it's turned into: 1. Technology advancement achieved, 2. Applications haphazardly being built to do anything with Technology, 3. Frantic search for users who might want to use applications.

No, it’s always been 1) Utter the current password in your pitch deck to unlock investor dollars. Recently it’s “AI” and “LLM,” but previously it was “Blockchain,” “Big Data,” etc.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by IgorPartola »

parasti wrote: post #102
treefarmer wrote: post #3

The downside of this approach is that it can affect the search results returned. But I found that if you add " -fuck" or " -fucking" to your search term, it disables the AI summary without significantly affecting your search results (unless you happen to be looking for content of a certain kind).

You will miss out on the category of strongly worded but helpful content.

Try it with * -tiananmen -square*

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by zeroonetwothree »

ryandrake wrote: post #163
autoexec wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-checkout has its uses and supporters. Introverts, the socially anxious, people in a hurry, people who'd much prefer to bag (or double/triple bag) their own items in ways that work best for them, people who want to get the organic tomato at the price of the non-organic one. It's absolutely still a scheme by companies to get rid of employees and get customers to do work for them for free, and there are still issue…

> people in a hurry Huh, I always thought it was the opposite: If you're in a hurry, you go through traditional check-out. Nothing really matches the speed of an experienced and trained grocery store checkout clerk whizzing boxes past the scanner faster than you can load them into your cart. I think traditional checkout can blaze through 30 grocery items before I can even get three or four out of my cart, fumble arou…

If I’m buying one thing then it’s much faster to self checkout than have to wait in line.

I agree with you for large purchases.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by wilg »

basscomm wrote: post #113
autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

> At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast amounts of employees out of work It's this part. Salaries and benefits are expensive. A computer program doesn't need a salary, retirement benefits, insurance, retirement, doesn't call in sick, doesn't take vacations, works 24/7, etc.

It's interesting how we can frame "potentially automating tasks" in the most sinister conceivable way. The same argument applies to essentially all technology, like a computer.

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by 3dsnano »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

at work i’ve been tasked with “developing AI use cases” to add on to our product.

we still don’t know what problems to solve, but we’re gonna use AI to help us figure that out.

once we do, it’s gonna be huge. this AI stuff is going to change everything!!!

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by imchillyb »

The technologically inclined will persist in pushing back against egregious changes in their daily routine.

The technologically disinclined or illiterate will continue to be oblivious, and simply use whatever is placed before them.

If this were not true, then app stores wouldn't have so much malware easily available to the masses. It wouldn't be profitable to release such things. It is profitable.

The masses will continue to amass stupidity as a miser amasses coin.

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Post by animitronix »

autoexec wrote: post #103

Every time some product or service introduces AI (or more accurately shoves it down our throats) people start looking for a way to get rid of it. It's so strange how much money and time companies are pouring into "features" that the public continues to reject at every opportunity. At this point I'm convinced that the endless AI hype and all the investment is purely due to hopes that it will soon put vast numbers of e…

Reminds me of 3d tv and AR glasses

Re: Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries

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Post by quesera »

talldayo wrote: post #128
greenavocado wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The end goal is a global panopticon followed by a culling of the herd. Read the inscriptions: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeo...

Sometimes I worry that the internet has enabled ordinary but gullible people to find exactly the supporting evidence they need to be considered insane by society.

> the internet has enabled ordinary but gullible people to find exactly the supporting evidence they need to be considered insane by society

If by "be considered insane by society", you mean "find each other, attract new members, mobilize, and vote", I'd say you're spot on.

This was all a big mistake. To future generations, all I can say is that we meant well.

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